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Mythic Mandarin

不是 (bù shì): meaning and stroke order

不是 (bù shì) means no, is not, not, fault; blame.

不是

Simplified
不是
Traditional
不是 (same form)
Pinyin
bù shì · bù shi

Stroke order of 不是

不

  • bù no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

是

  • shì to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true
  • shì variant of 是[shi4]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 昰

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 不是

  1. bù shì
    • no
    • is not
    • not
  2. bù shi
    • fault; blame

Radicals of the characters

不
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 4 strokes · built from 丆 and 卜
是
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 9 strokes · 日 on top, 𤴓 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

不是 in our stories

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  • 她在网上看了很多房子，不是太贵，就是离公司太远。

    tā zài wǎngshang kàn le hěn duō fángzi bú shì tài guì jiùshì lí gōngsī tài yuǎn

    She has looked at lots of places online: they are either too expensive or too far from the office.

    From the story The cheap room HSK 3

  • 他仔细一看，箱子上的名字不是他的，而是“林小提”。

    tā zǐxì yí kàn xiāngzi shàng de míngzi bú shì tā de érshì Lín Xiǎotí

    When he looked closely, the name on it wasn't his, but "Lin Xiaoti".

    From the story The identical suitcase HSK 4

  • 一个星期后，纸上写满了字，最多的竟然不是工具，而是“周末谁能帮我遛狗”。

    yí gè xīngqī hòu zhǐ shàng xiě mǎn le zì zuì duō de jìngrán bú shì gōngjù érshì zhōumò shéi néng bāng wǒ liù gǒu

    A week later the sheets were full, and the most common request wasn't for tools at all, but "Who can walk my dog at the weekend?"

    From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5

Stories using 不是

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).